Caution is the lower story of prudence.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Laughter means sympathy.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.